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The article linked below was published today by Nature Human Behaviour. Title Trust in Scientists and Their Role in Society Across 68 Countries Authors Viktoria Cologna, et al. Harvard University University of Zurich ETH Zurich Source Nature Human Behaviour (2025) DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-02090-5 Abstract Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help […]
The article linked below was recently published by Healthcare. Title Do Academic Libraries Contribute to Students’ and Communities’ Wellbeing?: A Scoping Review Authors Shivani Suresh Western Sydney University David Lim Western Sydney University University of Technology Sydney Kanchana Ekanayake University of Sydney Amit Arora Western Sydney University The Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School, Faculty […]
From ProPublica: Private schools in the United States are, on the whole, whiter than public schools, with fewer Black, Hispanic or Latino students. This may not be a surprising statistic because private schools can often be expensive and exclusionary, but it’s not a simple one to pin down. There is no central list of private […]
From Cornell Chronicle: Claire Deng ’22 was doing a survey of archival papers last summer at a library in the ILR School when she came across something unexpected. As the collections survey assistant at the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, she had been combing through thousands of boxes of archives since 2023 to evaluate […]
AI Explained: Generative AI’s Environmental Impact (via CSAIL, MIT) Data Curation Network (DCN) Data Curation Network Joins World Data System Data Science NIH (National Institutes of Health) Announces the Release of the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan for Data Science ORCID ORCID and Humanities: Celebrating the New Year with New Work Types
From a UMass Amherst Announcement: Curtis Brundy has been named of University Libraries, effective April 1. Brundy is currently Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communications and Collections at Iowa State University. From a Letter to the UMass Community: Curtis comes to UMass Amherst from Iowa State University (ISU), where he has been serving for the […]
From a USRN E-Mail: The U.S. Repository Network (USRN), a joint initiative of SPARC and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), just wrapped up its 12-month Discovery Pilot Project to evaluate and improve repository practices at 23 public and private institutions. The project revealed that 15 of the 23 institutions had OAI-PMH harvesting that […]
The article linked below was recently published by Sage Open. Title Scholarly Podcasting for Research Dissemination: A Scoping Review Authors Lindsay Persohn University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee Stephanie Branson Northern Arizona University Source Sage Open 15 (1) DOI: 10.1177/21582440241311694 Abstract The purpose of this scoping review is to understand ways in which podcasting is used […]
California Orange Cuts Library Branch Hours in Latest Cost-Cutting Measure (via OC Register) Georgia Cobb County Schools Bans 2 More Books, Including Kidnapping Victim’s Memoir (via WSB-TV) Texas San Antonio Public Library Hires Library Director From Small Pennsylvania Town (via Express News)
The Canada Reads 2025 longlist arrives. Poets & Writers publishes its 20th annual look at debut poets. Longlists are announced for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada, which honors books published by small presses. Sustainable Marketing: The Industry’s Role in a Sustainable Future by Paul Randle & Alexis Eyre wins the Leonard L. Berry Marketing Book Award. Harlequin is eliminating its Canary Street Press and Graydon House imprints. Plus, Page to Screen and interviews with Neko Case, Pagan Kennedy, and Charles Baxter.
The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Towards Best Practices for Open Datasets for LLM Training Authors Stefan Baack, Stella Biderman, Kasia Odrozek, et al. Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2501.08365 Abstract Many AI companies are training their large language models (LLMs) on data without the permission of the copyright owners. The permissibility of doing […]
From an EFGAMP (European Federation of Video Game Archives, Museums and Preservation) Post: Our new member GOG has produced first time a video showcasing key milestones and efforts to preserve games in 2024. It includes insights from some of the most respected voices in the industry: • Frank Cifaldi (The Video Game History Foundation) • Andrew Borman […]
The article linked below was recently published by Scientific Data. Title On the Readiness of Scientific Data Papers for a Fair and Transparent Use in Machine Learning Authors Joan Giner-Miguelez Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Barcelona Supercomputing Center Abel Gómez Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Jordi Cabot Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology University of […]
DataCite Celebrating the Second Cohort of DataCite Global Access Fund Awardees! DPLA (Digital Public Library of America) Recommitting to DPLA’s Mission in a Year of Transition eLife eLife appoints Timothy Behrens as Editor-in-Chief Library of Congress How to Browse All Digitized Titles in Chronicling America Make Data Count Advancing Data Metrics in 2025! MIT Press […]
Kirkus publishes its spring 2025 preview. Mystery Writers of America names Laura Lippman and John Sandford as its Grand Masters for 2025. Matt Bomer will narrate a new audiobook of Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life. Melville House plans to publish a paperback version of the Jack Smith report shortly after Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. Fantasy Magazine will be relaunched this spring. Plus new title bestsellers and interviews with Mike Mignola, Scott Turow, and Pico Iyer.
From the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas: Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of Saturday Night Live, has donated his archive to the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. The Lorne Michaels Collection documents Michaels’s career in television from his earliest writing for Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show up […]
The article linked below was recently published by Insights. Title Thema and World Needs: Exploring Bibliodiversity Through Open Access Book Subjects Authors Ronald Snijder OAPEN Foundation Source Insights Volume 38 (2025) DOI: 10.1629/uksg.679 Abstract Bibliodiversity is mostly studied based on publication languages or the imbalance of the means of knowledge production and dissemination. This article […]
AI AI Agents Are Here. How Much Should We Let Them Do? (via WIRED) AP Signs AI Licensing Deal with Google Navigating Artificial Intelligence in Postsecondary Education: Building Capacity for the Road Ahead (via Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education) Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Introducing Repertoires: A Series on Scholarly Ways of […]
She has a wonderful talent for situating books within larger contexts and discourses, allowing librarians to understand how different works might fit within their communities.
In reviews that showcase his enjoyment and knowledge of speculative fiction, Matthew accurately and expressively describes plot details and thoughtfully conveys the reading experience, along with offering apt comparisons and read-alikes.
Nat Cassidy is a playwright of off-off-Broadway speculative works and an established actor of stage and television, where he usually plays monsters and villains. He is also the author of the horror novels Mary, Nestlings, and the forthcoming When the Wolf Comes Home. He talks with LJ about the horror genre, his theater background, and indie publishing.
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.
The Dublin Literary Award longlist is announced. Jose Ando and Yui Suzuki win Japan’s Akutagawa literary prize, and Shin Iyohara wins the Naoki prize. The Millions releases its “Great Winter 2025 Preview.” LJ recognizes four reviewers of the year. Neil Gaiman responds to misconduct allegations. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Alice Feeney’s Beautiful Ugly. Interviews arrive with Rebecca Yarros, Aria Aber, Shane Burcaw and Hannah Burcaw, Jinger Duggar Vuolo, and Marie Kondo. Plus, People shares an excerpt from Suzanne Collins’s forthcoming “Hunger Games” novel, Sunrise on the Reaping, due out March 18.
In reviews that offer insight, invitation, and illumination, these four LJ reviewers showcase the life-affirming work of reading and writing about books.
From Association of Research Libraries (ARL): ARL is pleased to publish e-Resource Licensing Explained: An A–Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries, a practical tool to empower librarians who license electronic resources (e-resources). The guidebook includes easily digestible legal explanations and pragmatic strategies for preserving rights that users already have under US copyright law, particularly in the face […]
From Billboard: The Pacific Palisades fire destroyed the building housing Belmont Music Publishers, the exclusive publisher of physical works by early 20th century composer Arnold Schoenberg. The fire consumed Belmont’s entire inventory of sales and rental materials, including manuscripts, scores and other printed works, the publisher said. “For a company that focused exclusively on the […]
From NEH: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $22.6 million in grants for 219 humanities projects across the country. Among these are grants that will establish protocols for the stewardship and voluntary return of unethically acquired archaeological and ethnographic artifacts to their communities of origin; enrich K–12 educators’ understanding and teaching of […]
From the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries: HADES consists of advertisements from health sciences journals covering the disciplines of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, hospital management, laboratory management, and the allied health sciences from 1923 to 2007. From small quarter page ads to full page drug ads, which often include the pharmaceutical indications, these advertisements offer a window into […]
The research paper (preprint) shared below was recently posted on arXiv. Title Large Language Models, Knowledge Graphs and Search Engines: A Crossroads for Answering Users’ Questions Authors Aidan Hogan IMFD; DCC, Universidad de Chile Xin Luna Dong Meta Reality Labs Denny Vrandečić Wikimedia Foundation Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics Source DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2501.06699 Abstract […]
Data Literacy Building an Inclusive Data Literacy Community (via Harvard Data Science Review) Retractions Retractions Caused by Honest Mistakes are Extremely Stressful, Say Researchers (via Nature) Library Publishing Coalition DEIA Committee Report on the Library Publishing Forum 2024 Demographic Survey
Audiobooks Digital Audiobooks Lead Growth in Library Circulation For the Second Year (via Audio Publishers Association) Books Print Book Sales Saw a Small Sales Increase in 2024 (via PW) California “Palisades Branch of LA Public Library Burns Down. What Was Lost in the Fire?” (via Here and Now) Council on Library and Information Resource (CLIR) […]
The winners of the Nero Book Awards are announced. Peter Gizzi wins the T.S. Eliot Prize for his poetry collection Fierce Elegy. Kaya Press receives the Constellation Award. Earlyword’s January GalleyChat spreadsheet is out now. The Giller Prize will feature writers longlisted for the 2024 award in a new online book club. Multiple women accuse author Neil Gaiman of sexual abuse in a new Vulture story. CrimeReads shares an excerpt from Ruth Ware’s forthcoming novel, The Woman in Suite 11, due out July 8. Plus, a new £2 coin in Britain will feature George Orwell to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the author’s death.
From ALA: The American Library Association extends our deepest sympathies to those who have been affected by and to those who have lost everything during the Los Angeles area fires. We know that the Los Angeles Public Library’s Palisades Branch Library was destroyed, and we await word on others that may have been in the […]
From The NY Public Library: The New York Public Library has acquired the archive of Jhumpa Lahiri, shedding new light on the award-winning author and multilingual translator. Comprising 31 boxes of material stretching to nearly 40 linear feet, the archive, which will become publicly available in 2025, chronicles Lahiri’s literary accomplishments from a young age […]
AI AI Mistakes are Very Different Than Human Mistakes (via IEEE Spectrum) Authorship Attribution in the Era of LLMs: Problems, Methodologies, and Challenges (preprint; via arXiv) Center For Research Libraries (CRL) CRL Releases New Mission & Vision Statement Open Access Diamond Open Access: Advancing Knowledge as a Public Good (via UNESCO) Exploring the Business Models […]
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney leads holds this week. Also getting buzz are titles by Robert Crais, Grady Hendrix, Layne Fargo, and Scott Turow. People’s book of the week is I’ll Come To You by Rebecca Kauffman. The Philip K. Dick Award nominees and the Story Prize finalists are announced. Brooke Shields discusses aging and her new memoir, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old. SLJ shares how to help those impacted by the California wildfires. Jim Murphy’s Inner Excellence hits #1 on Amazon after a viral video captured Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown reading it during Sunday’s NFC wild-card game. Plus, NYPL acquires the archive of Jhumpa Lahiri.
The article linked below was recently published by Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. Title Open Science at the University of Toronto: Exploration of Researcher, Staff and Librarian Perspectives Authors Madelin Burt-D’Agnillo University of Toronto Mindy Thuna University of Toronto Source Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice […]
From the Wyoming Tribune Eagle: Early Tuesday morning, the Laramie County Library System was the victim of a ransomware attack that shut down library servers and immobilized most digital services. The library’s Information Technology team was able to revert the system to a previous state and resume full service for library patrons by 9 a.m. […]
Thao Thai’s Banyan Moon wins the Crook’s Corner Book Prize for the best debut novel set in the American South. Winners of the Silvers-Dudley Prizes, for literary criticism, arts writing, and journalism, are announced. Crown, a division of Penguin Random House, has launched Storehouse Voices, a new imprint devoted to elevating Black voices, and Simon & Schuster has announced a new audio-first imprint, Simon Maverick, focused on self-published authors. Publishers Weekly has Barack Obama’s list of his favorite books of 2024. Plus, interviews with Chukwuebuka Ibeh, Stuart Turton, and Tracy Clark.
In a significant decision for the freedom to read, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas recently declared two key sections of Arkansas Act 372—which expose librarians and booksellers to criminal penalties—unconstitutional. Section 1’s criminal penalties for “furnishing harmful items to minors” were deemed overly broad; Section 5’s process for giving decisions on book challenges and appeals to local government officials lacked constitutional safeguards and threatened a chilling effect on library staff and users alike.
From the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR): This collection of brief essays challenges long-held principles of archival practice by addressing the carceral underpinnings of the cultural professions. Contributors explore how complicity with carceral systems and the Prison Industrial Complex undermines equitable access to information and perpetuates systemic harms. Drawing from their experiences working […]
The article (preprint) linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Agent Laboratory: Using LLM Agents as Research Assistants Author Samuel Schmidgall AMD Johns Hopkins University Yusheng Su AMD Ze Wang AMD Ximeng Sun AMD Jialian Wu AMD Xiaodong Yu AMD Jiang Liu AMD Zicheng Liu AMD Emad Barsoum AMD Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2501.04227 […]
From the U. of South Carolina College of Information and Communication: A College of Information and Communications research team conducted a national survey on “Americans’ Use and Perception of AI Tools” in December 2024. This marks the second survey carried out on this topic, continuing their efforts to understand public attitudes toward AI technologies. The […]
AI AI and the Struggle for Control Over Research (via Inside Higher Ed) Meta Knew It Used Pirated Books to Train AI, Authors Say (via Reuters) The Publisher of the Journal “Nature” is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Work (via Futurism) Authors Alliance Artificial Intelligence, Authorship, […]
Winners of the Pacific Northwest Book Awards are announced. The shortlists for the Westminster Book Awards, for political books and books by UK parliamentarians, are revealed. Jenna Bush Hager, host of the Read with Jenna book club, is starting her own publishing venture with Penguin Random House. Plus interviews with Graham Norton, Jean Hanff Korelitz, and Liz Moore.
From the Public Domain Review: After the hundreds (thousands?) of hours trawling through online image collections since the PDR’s inception, we’ve decided it was time to create one of our own! We are really excited to share with you the launch of our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of more […]
The article (preprint) linked below was recently posted on arXiv. Title Detection of Metadata Manipulations: Finding Sneaked References in The Scholarly Literature Authors Lonni Besançon Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden Guillaume Cabanac Universit´e Toulouse Cyril Labbé Univ. Grenoble Alpes Alexander Magazinov Yandex.Kazakhstan Jules di Scala Universit´e Toulouse Dominika Tkaczyk Crossref Kathryn Weber-Boer Digital Science Source via […]
California Los Angeles Public Library Director John Szabo is Library Journal’s 2025 Librarian of the Year (via LJ) Connecticut E-Book Licensing Bill Filed in Connecticut General Assembly (Senate) HathiTrust Unlock the Past: Public Domain Day 2025 Idaho Boise Library Board Wrestles with Application of ‘Library Protection Act’ (via IdahoNews.com) Libraries Research Librarian is #20 on […]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joy-Ann Reid, Alyssa Cole, Essie Chambers, and more are nominated for NAACP Image Awards. Oprah picks Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose for her 110th book club. Other January book club picks include Kate Fagan’s The Three Lives of Cate Kay (Reese Witherspoon and Target), Emma Knight’s The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus (Read with Jenna and Barnes & Noble), and Karissa Chen’s Homeseeking (GMA and Good Housekeeping). LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title Beg, Borrow, or Steal by Sarah Adams. Reba McEntire will star in and produce an adaptation of Fannie Flagg’s The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion. Plus, Eliza Kennedy’s forthcoming novel Lucky Night will be adapted for the stage.
For those participating in Dry January or anyone looking to consume less alcohol, here’s a tempting array of cookbooks containing ideas for nonalcoholic cocktails.
El-Mohtar’s solo debut is a heart-wrenching fairy tale about the bonds of love and family. It’s a murder ballad in book form that will linger long after the final page is turned.
Beg, Borrow, or Steal by Sarah Adams is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.
The author of Where They Last Saw Her brings back Cash Blackbear in a tragic, unforgiving crime novel that emphasizes the perils of the foster care system for Indigenous children.
On December 9, the American Library Association (ALA) announced that it will receive an approximately $25 million bequest from James W. Lewis, senior vice president and senior relationship manager of the Lewis Group, an investment company within the Washington, DC, office of Merrill Lynch, to fund library school scholarships for students with demonstrated financial needs. The bequest is the largest in ALA’s history.
From Baylor University: Baylor University has been awarded a $2.48 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative (RCII) to support a major expansion of the Black Gospel Archive (BGA) at Baylor University Libraries. The award represents one of the largest foundation gifts to support Baylor Libraries and will underwrite an […]
From a CARL Announcement: The Canadian Association of Research Libraries is pleased to welcome the Library of Parliament as its newest member, which joins 29 university libraries and 2 federal institutions. As the voice of Canada’s research libraries, CARL enhances its members’ capacity to advance research and higher education; promotes effective and sustainable knowledge creation, […]
From Stateline: Amid a national rise in book bans in school libraries and new laws in some red states that threaten criminal penalties against librarians, a growing number of blue states are taking the opposite approach. State leaders are demonstrating that censorship has no place in their state and that the freedom to read is […]
From the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS): The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced today the release of a report “State-Level Analysis of Public Library Service Adaptations in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.” This report focuses on state- and territory-level profiles covering public library financial health, resources, services, usage, and staffing […]
